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SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,878. dated August 14, 1888.

Application filed September 20. 1886. Serial No. 214,043. (No model.) Patented in England December 1, No. 14,176, and in France April '1, 1886, No. 175,326.

sponding to the series of fingers similarly 50 marked. Figs. 9 and 10 illustrate a modification and show a section and elevation of the supporting drum.

In Fig 1 and the subsequent figures, A. is an axis, which is rotated by meansof a spur-wheel, 55 A, at its end, and a pinion driven in any convenient way gears with this wheel. B is a drum on the axis A and constituting the supporting-surface for the frilliug or ruching.

O is a guide through which the l'rilling or ruching, as shown by Fig. 4, is led onto the up per surface of the drum, so that the band into which the frilling or ruching is set rests on the periphery of the drum, while the frill overhangs its edge. 65

D is a head fixed on the axis A. It is built up in parts, as shown in Fig. 3, and there are a number of radial openings in it, in which the fingers E and F are carried.

E and F are short pins held in the head D and serving as axes about which the fingers can turn. The fingers F are slotted,as shown, so that they can slide longitudinally as well as turn; but the fingers E can only turn.

G is the stationary cam by which the fingers 7 are governed as far as concerns the movement of their outer ends to and from the axis.

H is a stationary inclined plate, against which comes a shoulder, F, on the fingers F, and thrusts them forward at a suitable time 80 and retains them when they are so placed.

The method of working is as follows: The rotation of the drum B and head D, carrying To (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Cameras GREY HILL, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing atArnotHill,inthecountyofNottingham,Eng-

5 land, have invented certain new anduseful Imp rovements in Machines for lllanuiacturing Frilling or Ruching, (for which Letters Patent No. 14,776, dated December 1, 1885, have been granted to me in Great Britain, and Letters Patent of addition of September 11, 1886, on patent of April 7, 1886, No. 175,326, have been granted to me in France,) of which the following is a specification.

In my application, Serial No. 214,042, for

l 5 Letters Patentol' the United States, filed simultaneousl y herewith, I have described means for the production of i'rillings and ruchings. The frilling or ruching consists ofplaitedorgoffered fabric set into a band, and to form the frill it is deflected or bent inward at regular intervals and retained or set in the form so given to it.

The means to this end therein set forth, and

hereinafter described and clainied,(lifi'erin essential features.

Now, in accordance with my present invention, a like result is attained by means of mechanical fingers operating on the frill while it is supported upon the periphery of a drum, the said fingers being so controlled as to cause them to carry the frill downward or inward toward the axis of the drum, and then to tuck it beneath the edge of the supporting-surface.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a machine for forming frilling and ruehings in this mannor. Fig. 1 is a viewin perspective. Fig. 2 with it the fingers E and F, causes the frilling is a horizontal section. Fig. 3 is an end eleto be drawn forward through the guide 0. In 8 vation with the drum removed. Fig. dshows the neighborhood of the entrance end of the guide the fingers E and F are open apart, scissors-like, as seen in Fig. 2, the outer ends of the fingers F being outside the rim of the drum B, while the outer ends of the fingers E are within 0 it. The fingers E and F are arranged alternately all around the circle. As the head 1) revolves, carrying the fingers with it, the outer fingers, F, fall down onto the frill and displace it. The outer ends of these fingers then pass 95 parts at the other end of the machine. Fi 5 shows parts in plan. Figs. 6 and 7 show the fingers separately and full size. Fig. 8 shows a face view of the stationary cam for controlling the fingers. Figs. 8*, 8", S, S, 8, 8, 8=, 8", 8, 8 S", S, and 8" show the different positions which the fingers assume as they travel around, .5 and in each figure the portion of the cam then controlling the fingers is shown in section. Fig.

8 is a diagram representing the face of the controlling-cam, and on it are marked lines 8 to 8*,iuc1usive, showing the positions correunder the guide-wire C at the top of the drum (seen in Fig. 1*) and nip the frili just before arriving at the top of the drain. They then thrustit in under the drum-rim just after passing the center. This is effected by the incline at H operating against the shoulders F of the fingers. The frill then takes a serpentinecourse under the fingers F and over the fingers E, the fingers all being side by side, and in this position the fingers remain for some time. Whenvertically under the axis, the fingers F are drawnback by the lower incline of the plate H, and when released the ends of the fingersF fall outward away from the drum. The successive positions assumed by the fingers are very fullyshown by Figs. 8 to 8, inelusive. While the frill is held between the fingers it passes a minutejet of steam and the steam plays upon it. The drum B is heated by a gasfiame in contact with its axis, and the heat of the drum is sufficieut to set the frill after it has been steamed before the fingers releaseit.

The arrow I in Fig. 4 shows the direction in which the frllling or ruching is fed into the machine onto the drum, and the arrow J shows the direction in which it is drawn off.

Sometimes I dispense with the pivoted fingers E,and in place thereof provide an equivalent set of fingers formed by comblike teeth on the periphery of the drum.

Fig. 9 is a sectiou,and Fig. 10 is an end elevation,of a drum so made. B B are the teeth on the drum. The fingersF F carry down the frill between these teeth and tuck it in beneath the periphery of the dru m, as already described. The steaming and drying then are performed, as already described.

I claim 1. The combination of the revolving supporting-surface for the frilling or ruching, the cam G, the two sets of fingers, both having a vibrating movement, and the revolving head for carrying the same, one set of the said fingers having also an endwise movement, and means, substantially as described, for securing said endwise movement, whereby the frill is carried down and tucked in beneath the edge of the supporting-surface and so held while it is set in form, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a machine for forming frilling or ruching, of the revolving drum B, the guide 0, the revolving head D, the fingers E and F, means for closing the fingers together to embrace the fabric between them, the cam G, and the incline H, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the driving-shaft, the revolving supporting-drum, theguide thereon, the revolving head fixed to the driving-shaft, the fingers F, mounted on the revolving head, means, substantially as described, for giving said fingers a vibratory and an endwise movement relatively to the supporting-drum, the fingers E, mounted on the head, and means, substantially as described, for giving said fingers a vibratory movement relatively to the drum, substantially as set forth.

London, September 6, 1886.

CHARLES GREY HILL.

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